China: Measures to 'Improve' One-Child Policy Are Under Review

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Updated Aug. 5, 2013 12:44 a.m. ET

BEIJING—Chinese authorities are considering measures to change the country's one-child policy by allowing some families to have a second child, the official Xinhua News Agency reported late Friday, citing an official with the national family planning agency.

"Our commission is organizing research on the size, quality, structure and distribution of the population so that we can propose plans to improve the [one-child]...